{"id":915530,"date":"2022-01-12T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/pope-makes-surprise-visit-to-rome-record-store-gets-classical-cd\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:27:06","slug":"pope-makes-surprise-visit-to-rome-record-store-gets-classical-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/pope-makes-surprise-visit-to-rome-record-store-gets-classical-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope makes surprise visit to Rome record store, gets classical CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pope Francis<\/strong> [Courtesy]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday evening to visit old friends who run a Rome record shop and came away with a gift of a CD. <\/p>\n

The visit was to have remained private but Javier Martinez-Brocal, a reporter for the Rome Reports television news agency, was in the area by chance, filmed it with his smartphone, and posted it on Twitter. <\/p>\n

Francis stayed inside the StereoSound record shop near the ancient Pantheon for little more than 10 minutes. A Vatican spokesman said Francis had gone there to bless the shop because it had been recently renovated. <\/p>\n

Martinez-Brocal told Reuters the shop’s owners told him that they had become friends with the pope years ago when he was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires. <\/p>\n

He would visit their shop to buy classical music records and CDs when he was in Rome on Church business and stayed at a nearby residence for visiting clerics. <\/p>\n

They said they gave the pope a CD of classical music but declined to be more specific. Francis is known to like Beethoven, Mozart and Bach — and even tango music from his native Argentina. <\/p>\n

The video showed the pope, who shuns bulletproof cars leaving the shop and getting into a simple white Fiat 500 with Vatican number plates. <\/p>\n

It was not the first time the pope has visited a Rome shop. In 2015, two years after his election, he ordered a new pair of eyeglasses from a Rome optician. <\/p>\n

They were to have been delivered to the Vatican but he decided to go pick them up himself. <\/p>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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